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[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Pallavi wrote: "Em Lost In Books wrote: "Will rewrite #7 with sci-fi.

if get one more person we can make two teams of two members each. two teams and we can definitely talk about points. :)"


tempting.... To Joi..."

Hi Pallavi!
Do Join. The more, the merrier. :)

[Pallavi]

ok.... I am in...lets see :)

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

4 done. So Visalakshi has read 5 books so far, I'm pairing her with Bookworm who seems to be unstoppable this year.;)

It's Pallavi and I in the other team.

I will create the thread in the evening.

Any suggestion on how point distribution? 1 pt or 5 pts per book?

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "4 done. So Visalakshi has read 5 books so far, I'm pairing her with Bookworm who seems to be unstoppable this year.;)

It's Pallavi and I in the other team.

I will create the thread in the evenin..."

Lol...That's only because of the KD, NB series. The crests and troughs in my reading journey. Sigh!

Sure. After you create the thread, should we wait till tomorrow, folks who check the site in the evenings might be interested to join as well (I hope).

Pts I'm fine with anything. Though 10 would be cooler. :D

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Let's wait till April 1. Perhaps some more people will be interested.

10 then. :)

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Let's wait till April 1. Perhaps some more people will be interested.

10 then. :)"

:)

[Pallavi]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "The categories:

1) Award Winner
2) Translation
3) Romance
4) Fantasy
5) YA
6) Fiction
7) A book published in your Birthday month
8) Non-Fic
9) Book to Movie
10) Mystery/Crime/Thriller

Here is wha..."

You can think about replacing "Romance" with "Horror". :P
Like Horror books are more appealing than Romance ...

[Pallavi]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "The categories:

1) Award Winner
2) Translation
3) Romance
4) Fantasy
5) YA
6) Fiction
7) A book published in your Birthday month
8) Non-Fic
9) Book to Movie
10) Mystery/Crime/Thriller

Here is wha..."

You can think about replacing "Romance" with "Horror". :P
Like Horror books are more appealing than Romance ...

[Nathan]

Pallavi wrote: "Em Lost In Books wrote: "The categories:

1) Award Winner
2) Translation
3) Romance
4) Fantasy
5) YA
6) Fiction
7) A book published in your Birthday month
8) Non-Fic
9) Book to Movie
10) Mystery/Cr..."

I second only the part of including Horror as a new option.

@Em: I will have a look once the new thread for this is created.

[Visalakshi]

Yay!!! this is exciting for me! Hahhaha i was wondering if Em and Bookworm were on same team others would lose surely ;) ;)
all categories are fine! you guys talking about years.. which category is that? award winner?

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Visalakshi wrote: "Yay!!! this is exciting for me! Hahhaha i was wondering if Em and Bookworm were on same team others would lose surely ;) ;)
all categories are fine! you guys talking about years.. which category i..."

If it's only 4 of us, then Em and Pallavi in one team and you and I will be on the other. I do hope many will participate and we'll have more teams.

Regarding the years, each category has to be within the decade 2011-2020. So when we pick a book we need to make sure that we can strike off a category along with a year.
Say, Golden Son, so this will cross out #6 and 2015. And so on.

We basically are playing our own "match the following", so we need to strike off all the categories, for us to move on to the prior decade i.e. 2001-2010. (hence, 10 categories, 10 years)

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

@Em, correct me if I got anything wrong in the above comment.

And maybe if there's another column of years beside the category with bullets of a,b,c etc., It'll be easier to understand and match (say we matched #6 and (b)), we can cross out both 6 and b.

And this is how I got the most uncreative challenge name. (match & strike/cross)?
I'll better leave these things to the creative ones. :D

[Visalakshi]

okay got it! thank you :)

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Bookworm wrote: "@Em, correct me if I got anything wrong in the above comment. (..."

spot on.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

@Pallavi & @Nathan - Done.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "@Pallavi & @Nathan - Done."

So including horror as #9 ?

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

yeah. Will be a challenge, I know I avoid the genre purposefully... You are not into horror?

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "yeah. Will be a challenge, I know I avoid the genre purposefully... You are not into horror?"

It depends on what kind. Some are marketed as horrors but they're usually just paranormal with thriller being a subplot and they don't actually tend to be that scary.
Let's see.
Worst case we make the partners take care of it. :D

Last time I checked, I was not into horror movies too. But I haven't watched anything for last few years. Who knows maybe I'll like them now.

[Pallavi]

Is the thread up?

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Will create one in evening. Pinky promise. :D

[Pallavi]

ok...😂

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Starting the 3rd installment of Mistborn, The Hero of Ages. I just realized that the blurb gave away a spoiler of the 2nd book.
GR, Really? That's all it takes to confirm my suspicions? :D

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Lolss.. That's why i avoid reading blurbs

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

I know. But I can't help it! Maybe I can try and avoid for series.
But it's difficult, I googled about one of the characters in the 2nd book and unknowingly read an important plot point of the current one. Sigh!

[Nathan]

Tough luck

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Yeah. That's on me.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Btw, the ratings of about to be released books are usually due to ARC reviews only?

[Nathan]

Most likely. I've found few good books to my taste despite bad reviews so there's that.

[Leena]

Finished Perfume and ive no idea what to say?? Not a book ill.jump to read or suggest.

[Leena]

Btw it took me an entire month to plough through.
I should have taken an acre of land - id have something to show for my hard work🤦‍♀️

[Leena]

Em: i agree with you on Before Coffee Gets Cold - its ovwr hyped . Pretty juvenile for.my taste

[Savita]

Hope you have better luck with your April reads , Leena 📚 🍀

[Leena]

Thanks Savita. I sure need it.

[Nathan]

Water for Elephants Have always thought about starting it but couldn't finish. Started and then switched to another book. Anyone else face this issue? Start a book and then another book catches your fancy & you switch?

Void Star Sci-Fi for decade challenge purposes...

Black Sun Epic Fantasy- maybe bit boring at first but after 50-60% story really picks up & it's awesome!! Loved this!

Graveminder wtf is this shit? Don't read this. You have been warned. It is boring as hell.

Orphan X premise looks interesting! Will start today if time permits

[Leena]

Nathan wrote: "Water for Elephants Have always thought about starting it but couldn't finish. Started and then switched to another book. Anyone else face this issue? Start a book and then another boo..."
All the while Nathan.

[Leena]

https://bookriot.com/the-best-mystery...

Fyi

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Leena wrote: "https://bookriot.com/the-best-mystery...

Fyi"

Marked. Thanks! :)

[Nathan]

@Leena: thanks.

[Tahira]

Im reading Chandigarh UnmaskedChandigarh Unmasked

[Leena]

Im reading Stillwatch
Fantastic, classic MCH.
Definitely recommend 👌

[Nathan]

Leena wrote: "Im reading Stillwatch
Fantastic, classic MCH.
Definitely recommend 👌"

Had read StillWatch long back, was not a fan.
Read a couple more Mary Higgins Clark books too, was not a fan either.
Somehow I always feel most of her plots are predictable.

[Leena]

They are but, still well written and keeps you on tenterhooks.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Finished Firekeeper's Daughter and it was good. Currently reading Lessons in Chemistry, thought it'd be a romance but I was wrong. It's a woman's story in 1950s, misogyny in society at the time, how people look down upon young, promising women, specially if they are more intelligent than you. Around 40% in, anc am loving it. Hope it stays like this till the end.

[Nathan]

Lock In SciFi/Speculative Fiction. Pretty good read.
Reading Final Girls now

[Nathan]

Just thought to put it out here : Slither
Splatterpunk horror & then worms.

Do I recommend this novel for all? No, it's not for the faint-hearted.

Disturbing? Absolutely.

Worth it? Cathartic really.

How did I feel whilst reading it & finishing it? WTF is this shit!

Bad Writing? No

Scared? No

Disgusted? Absolutely.

[Leena]

I finished a whole lot of romance - sports, historical and contemporary. This month is the crime month
1. The Book of Cold Cases.
2. The Shadow of the Wind
3. The Hunting Party
4. The Murder on Black Swan Road.
5. Say Nothing.
6. The Forest of Stolen Girls.
to start with.

[Nathan]

@Leena: Forest of Stolen Girls is excellent!!!
Shadow of the wind is slow at first then picks up real fast.
Hunting party didn't like it.

I'll check out the rest & add to my Tbr

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

@Leena, that list looks exciting! Enjoy!
The Book of Cold Cases is in my tbr too.

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Shadow of the wind was one of my favorites and 5 star reads when I picked it up long ago.
Hope you like it.

[Leena]

welcome back bookworm. which library were you gnawing into??